Back in April, Phil Richards, chief financial officer for First National Bank of Brookfield, announced that the bank would award $250 to any Little League player whose homerun ball hit the centerfield scoreboard at Overholt Field in Kiwanis Park, and donate $250 to Brookfield Little League to boot.

The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) earlier this month filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court to force the Cook County Forest Preserve District to turn over records related to the deaths of 54 stingrays at a Brookfield Zoo exhibit in 2015.

Riverside residents with developmental and intellectual disabilities will be able to register for a wide variety of special recreation classes this fall after the Riverside Village Board voted unanimously on July 19 to join the West Suburban Special Recreation Association (WSSRA).

A Riverside man whose home was the target of an alleged home invasion in June has asked officials to consider blocking off Berkeley Road at Harlem Avenue to prevent anyone from entering the village there.

As expected, last week the Lyons School District 103 Board of Education hired Patrick Patt and Robert Madonia to be co-interim superintendents for the 2018-19 school year, replacing Carol Baker who has resigned, effective Aug 1, to become an assistant superintendent for Hinsdale High School District 86.

Over the objections of Maplewood Road residents who appear convinced that a flood control project proposed south of Park Place will worsen flooding in their neighborhood, Riverside trustees voted unanimously on July 19 to have their attorney work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prepare a Project Partnership Agreement.

The villages of Riverside and Brookfield have moved to pass laws regulating – to the extent the state has allowed them – the installation of wireless receivers on existing and potentially new utility poles as the telecommunications industry rolls out its 5G technology over the next few years.